Windows 11, what a mess!
-
This thread confirms my opinion that MS does the Windows Vista insanity every few years I am still running Windows 7 64 bit Professional and often feel I should upgrade this conversation makes it clear NOT EVER Started with Windows 3.1 learned my lesson with Windows Me YES to DOA and pre-installed trash Best of Luck What brand Notebook did you purchase ?
Me always worked fine for me. Then again, I was only playing games back then :D Vista was an absolute train wreck. Windows 8 wasn't much better, but at least it had decent support. Windows 7 was great, but I must say Windows 10 is just a bit better. The start menu in 10 beats 7, and I think you need 10 for newer hardware and software. I mean, great as 7 was, it's already 13 years old! :omg: That said, Windows 7 and 10 are alike in a lot of ways. I think Microsoft wanted to play it safe after the Windows 8 catastrophe. So, if you're looking to update (you'll have to eventually) Windows 10 is a safe bet as far as I'm concerned :)
Best, Sander Azure DevOps Succinctly (free eBook) Azure Serverless Succinctly (free eBook) Migrating Apps to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript
-
This thread confirms my opinion that MS does the Windows Vista insanity every few years I am still running Windows 7 64 bit Professional and often feel I should upgrade this conversation makes it clear NOT EVER Started with Windows 3.1 learned my lesson with Windows Me YES to DOA and pre-installed trash Best of Luck What brand Notebook did you purchase ?
Oh, and I got a Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro by the way.
Best, Sander Azure DevOps Succinctly (free eBook) Azure Serverless Succinctly (free eBook) Migrating Apps to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript
-
So I got my new laptop yesterday and it has Windows 11 installed. First of all, I tried to sign in with my business email, as it's a business laptop. Impossible. This isn't something that's a problem with Windows 11, but with Microsoft in general. Microsoft accounts are a mess, like a huge stinking pile of manure. So I'm logged in with my personal account (I wonder how I'd do this for employees in the future) and I upgraded to Windows 11 Pro on my personal account. That Microsoft, the company for businesses, doesn't allow business accounts to log in is beyond me though. Now, I haven't actually used it yet (still downloading and installing all my stuff), but I already hate the new taskbar. I don't even mind that it's centered, but the only option for your applications is an icon with multiple instances of the same app grouped together. You can't see how many instances of Visual Studio are open and you need to hover first to select the one you want. That's an additional action each time I need to open or switch an app. This has been around for a long time, but you could always override this in settings to ungroup and show names too. No more overriding in Windows 11, this is it now. The start menu got a makeover too. Where I could group applications and even name those groups in Windows 10 (it did that really well!) it's down to just a list in Windows 11. I have about 35 apps pinned and grouped in Windows 10, the kind I use regularly, but not daily, easily accessible from my start menu. Well, goodbye to easy access. Oh yeah, I do get a whole bar of "recommended" apps that I don't want and I can make it a little smaller, but not remove it. The next issue I found, which is small, but so easy to do better, is your user folder. It's simply the first five letters of your name, so I'm "sande" now. No way to change this without going into regedit and hoping nothing will break (haven't changed it (yet)). Is this the 80's where we had to resort to cryptic naming to save some bytes? X| This is the thing I'm doing with Windows, logging in and opening and switching applications, and they've messed it up. I wonder what more I'll find, but I'm not convinced it will be for the better. Why!? Probably because it looks just a little bit more sleek. It's been form over function for many applications for years X| At least responses and performance seem to be great, but that's always been true for every freshly installed computer. If I didn't really need Windows for work I might've switched to Linux at
I have nothing constructive to add other than that's a bummer having to fight with your tools. It will take some time to find and get used to the new ways of doing things but you're young and bright! :laugh: I've not bought a laptop yet that came with an OS that didn't need upgrading or downgrading. Get a new SSD and put 10 Pro on it. Keep the old SSD just in case you decide you need to test in 11.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse "Hope is contagious"
-
So I got my new laptop yesterday and it has Windows 11 installed. First of all, I tried to sign in with my business email, as it's a business laptop. Impossible. This isn't something that's a problem with Windows 11, but with Microsoft in general. Microsoft accounts are a mess, like a huge stinking pile of manure. So I'm logged in with my personal account (I wonder how I'd do this for employees in the future) and I upgraded to Windows 11 Pro on my personal account. That Microsoft, the company for businesses, doesn't allow business accounts to log in is beyond me though. Now, I haven't actually used it yet (still downloading and installing all my stuff), but I already hate the new taskbar. I don't even mind that it's centered, but the only option for your applications is an icon with multiple instances of the same app grouped together. You can't see how many instances of Visual Studio are open and you need to hover first to select the one you want. That's an additional action each time I need to open or switch an app. This has been around for a long time, but you could always override this in settings to ungroup and show names too. No more overriding in Windows 11, this is it now. The start menu got a makeover too. Where I could group applications and even name those groups in Windows 10 (it did that really well!) it's down to just a list in Windows 11. I have about 35 apps pinned and grouped in Windows 10, the kind I use regularly, but not daily, easily accessible from my start menu. Well, goodbye to easy access. Oh yeah, I do get a whole bar of "recommended" apps that I don't want and I can make it a little smaller, but not remove it. The next issue I found, which is small, but so easy to do better, is your user folder. It's simply the first five letters of your name, so I'm "sande" now. No way to change this without going into regedit and hoping nothing will break (haven't changed it (yet)). Is this the 80's where we had to resort to cryptic naming to save some bytes? X| This is the thing I'm doing with Windows, logging in and opening and switching applications, and they've messed it up. I wonder what more I'll find, but I'm not convinced it will be for the better. Why!? Probably because it looks just a little bit more sleek. It's been form over function for many applications for years X| At least responses and performance seem to be great, but that's always been true for every freshly installed computer. If I didn't really need Windows for work I might've switched to Linux at
looks at new laptop running windows 11 - has 5 windows 10 vms on it... your starting post is almost an exact summary of my complaints. ms just crapping on itself for crapping sake. don't even get me started on all of the bs authentication nonsense.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
-
This thread confirms my opinion that MS does the Windows Vista insanity every few years I am still running Windows 7 64 bit Professional and often feel I should upgrade this conversation makes it clear NOT EVER Started with Windows 3.1 learned my lesson with Windows Me YES to DOA and pre-installed trash Best of Luck What brand Notebook did you purchase ?
Windows 7 is just Vista SP3, but without any trace of work by designers.
-
Yeah, but it's sad we need a third party tool for this.
Best, Sander Azure DevOps Succinctly (free eBook) Azure Serverless Succinctly (free eBook) Migrating Apps to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript
Yep, I got Start8 soon after I 'upgraded' to Windows 8. Now I only upgrade Windows if there's a Start version ready for it.
-
So I got my new laptop yesterday and it has Windows 11 installed. First of all, I tried to sign in with my business email, as it's a business laptop. Impossible. This isn't something that's a problem with Windows 11, but with Microsoft in general. Microsoft accounts are a mess, like a huge stinking pile of manure. So I'm logged in with my personal account (I wonder how I'd do this for employees in the future) and I upgraded to Windows 11 Pro on my personal account. That Microsoft, the company for businesses, doesn't allow business accounts to log in is beyond me though. Now, I haven't actually used it yet (still downloading and installing all my stuff), but I already hate the new taskbar. I don't even mind that it's centered, but the only option for your applications is an icon with multiple instances of the same app grouped together. You can't see how many instances of Visual Studio are open and you need to hover first to select the one you want. That's an additional action each time I need to open or switch an app. This has been around for a long time, but you could always override this in settings to ungroup and show names too. No more overriding in Windows 11, this is it now. The start menu got a makeover too. Where I could group applications and even name those groups in Windows 10 (it did that really well!) it's down to just a list in Windows 11. I have about 35 apps pinned and grouped in Windows 10, the kind I use regularly, but not daily, easily accessible from my start menu. Well, goodbye to easy access. Oh yeah, I do get a whole bar of "recommended" apps that I don't want and I can make it a little smaller, but not remove it. The next issue I found, which is small, but so easy to do better, is your user folder. It's simply the first five letters of your name, so I'm "sande" now. No way to change this without going into regedit and hoping nothing will break (haven't changed it (yet)). Is this the 80's where we had to resort to cryptic naming to save some bytes? X| This is the thing I'm doing with Windows, logging in and opening and switching applications, and they've messed it up. I wonder what more I'll find, but I'm not convinced it will be for the better. Why!? Probably because it looks just a little bit more sleek. It's been form over function for many applications for years X| At least responses and performance seem to be great, but that's always been true for every freshly installed computer. If I didn't really need Windows for work I might've switched to Linux at
Talking with a coworker yesterday, we decided 11 was really Windows MeH-8, lol. I've managed to get my laptop to be schizophrenic, which has some pros and cons. You have to pay attention to who apps think you are. Not sure if that happened because I'm a 365 admin but I remember battling the user piece. It was an upgrade from 10. A new little 11 desktop box virtually cloned the laptop, which actually made life easy for me, though I could see one might not want that in a lot of cases. Guess I got used to the stacked taskbar in 10, I kinda like it when I have a bunch of office docs open. The recommended apps isn't ready for primetime in my book. There's some screwed up logic in what shows up there. The 5 char user name thing is weird. It only applies to the primary user because... no clue. The bright spot is it has seemed to maintain performance over time.
-
I do have the 22H2 update. You've got to wonder why they keep pushing this design even though they get backlash in every new Windows and have to make fixes for every new Windows too. I can only imagine there's some designer over at Microsoft who's like "Am I out of touch? No, it's the users that are wrong!"
Best, Sander Azure DevOps Succinctly (free eBook) Azure Serverless Succinctly (free eBook) Migrating Apps to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript
Because hydrocephelic program managers try to get promoted by creating new things that aren't quite windows, and when they fail ram the unpolishable turds into the base OS. See the Win8 Start Screen and UWP apps. The w11 startmenu and taskbar are cluster :elephant:ed garbage fires because they were written from scratch for another halfbaked attempt to get back into smaller fondleslabs.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius
-
So I got my new laptop yesterday and it has Windows 11 installed. First of all, I tried to sign in with my business email, as it's a business laptop. Impossible. This isn't something that's a problem with Windows 11, but with Microsoft in general. Microsoft accounts are a mess, like a huge stinking pile of manure. So I'm logged in with my personal account (I wonder how I'd do this for employees in the future) and I upgraded to Windows 11 Pro on my personal account. That Microsoft, the company for businesses, doesn't allow business accounts to log in is beyond me though. Now, I haven't actually used it yet (still downloading and installing all my stuff), but I already hate the new taskbar. I don't even mind that it's centered, but the only option for your applications is an icon with multiple instances of the same app grouped together. You can't see how many instances of Visual Studio are open and you need to hover first to select the one you want. That's an additional action each time I need to open or switch an app. This has been around for a long time, but you could always override this in settings to ungroup and show names too. No more overriding in Windows 11, this is it now. The start menu got a makeover too. Where I could group applications and even name those groups in Windows 10 (it did that really well!) it's down to just a list in Windows 11. I have about 35 apps pinned and grouped in Windows 10, the kind I use regularly, but not daily, easily accessible from my start menu. Well, goodbye to easy access. Oh yeah, I do get a whole bar of "recommended" apps that I don't want and I can make it a little smaller, but not remove it. The next issue I found, which is small, but so easy to do better, is your user folder. It's simply the first five letters of your name, so I'm "sande" now. No way to change this without going into regedit and hoping nothing will break (haven't changed it (yet)). Is this the 80's where we had to resort to cryptic naming to save some bytes? X| This is the thing I'm doing with Windows, logging in and opening and switching applications, and they've messed it up. I wonder what more I'll find, but I'm not convinced it will be for the better. Why!? Probably because it looks just a little bit more sleek. It's been form over function for many applications for years X| At least responses and performance seem to be great, but that's always been true for every freshly installed computer. If I didn't really need Windows for work I might've switched to Linux at
-
The user name problem has been around for years, I've fixed in win10 and win7. A quick search shows it can still be changed. For example this is the first link, haven't tried it nor read it in detail, but it looked similar to the win10 solution How to Change User Name and Account Name in Windows 11? - Windows 11 Community[^] The taskbar I believe you can fix. The new start menu is probably the main reason I haven't upgraded. I think I'll wait until win12 (I've always skipped a version windows anyway).
// TODO: Insert something here
Top ten reasons why I'm lazy 1.
"it's been around for years" And yet a new OS 2 generations past still has the problem? This is exactly what is wrong with Microsoft.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
-
Because hydrocephelic program managers try to get promoted by creating new things that aren't quite windows, and when they fail ram the unpolishable turds into the base OS. See the Win8 Start Screen and UWP apps. The w11 startmenu and taskbar are cluster :elephant:ed garbage fires because they were written from scratch for another halfbaked attempt to get back into smaller fondleslabs.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius
-
Yeah, but I don't want a local account, I want to use my account that's connected to Visual Studio, my M365 Business License, Azure AD, etc. A local account would be a completely new account that I've never used before. I did find a way to also connect my business account though.
Best, Sander Azure DevOps Succinctly (free eBook) Azure Serverless Succinctly (free eBook) Migrating Apps to the Cloud with Azure arrgh.js - Bringing LINQ to JavaScript
This is an example of Microsoft's complete insanity, dyslexia, or hydrocephelic (new word I learned today). These idiots want us to go to a subscription model for everything - hence the logins all over the place. Since I'm a small business person, I legally qualify the community license to Visual Studio. Enter customer's corporate IT department plus it's insane Global Prevent VPN plus Microsoft's self inflicted technical ignorance. The tools go into a total CJ trying to figure out who I am. This is the age old, "Microsoft, why do you make it so hard to use your tools?" Don't even get me started on the POS Teams is.
Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.
